Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
>
> >
> > At least it makes my system work as well as for the 32-bit kernel.
>
> What programs btw are using syscall()? To be honest I don't recall one ...
/sbin/rpc.lockd.
It use syscall() to indirectly call the 'sys_nfsservctl' syscall, why it
doesn't do the syscall directly is beyond me.
>
> Looking more into it I found a nice showstopper - a few functions like
> _sys_sigsuspend() expect a struct pt_regs on the stack. That's only
> working if we call those functions directly from the exception handler.
> It won't work if we have another function's stackframe - in this case
> sys_syscall()'s there also ...
>
> Ralf
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